Shakur Stevenson faces William Zepeda for Stevenson’s WBC lightweight title on Saturday, July 12, 2025 (7/12/25) at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York. Edgar Berlanga will face Hamzah Sheeraz in a super middleweight fight.

In Saturday’s co-main event atop the “Ring III” card at Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York City, Sheeraz violently knocked down Edgar Berlanga twice in the fourth round and stopped him seconds into the fifth.

Amid all the hullabaloo and hysteria of a typically chaotic press conference, Edgar Berlanga still insisted he would have the last word against Hamzah Sheeraz this weekend. The Chosen One is a man typically keen to put his money where his mouth is. Across his career, the super-middleweight superstar has built a reputation he frequently backs up.

Fight time, undercard, latest odds, prediction, ring walks - Ring III main event in New York comes after Shakur Stevenson vs William Zepeda

Trinidad stopped 35 of his 42 victims on his way to the International Boxing Hall of Fame and inspired a generation of fighters from his homeland and beyond. One who has gone back and studied the legendary Trinidad is Edgar Berlanga, for whom Trinidad was a staple ingredient of his boxing education over the years.

"The Chosen One" definitely stole the show at the final press conference ahead of Hamah Sheeraz fight, even going at a legendary promoter.

Edgar Berlanga and Shakur Stevenson headline the show in separate bouts on the card, which sends both locally based fighters to a place they'd never visited before. The fights will be in Louis Armstrong Stadium, the No. 2 venue on the grounds.